Example sentences of "if i can [not/n't] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I ca n't do it all , which of those things that I really need or want to do am I going to have to leave undone ? |
| 2 | If I ca n't manage it in a quiet room , or a temporary study , I impose it on everyone at least for a short time . |
| 3 | I 'm really not a great buyer — if I ca n't wear it and I ca n't eat it , then I 'm not that bothered . |
| 4 | ‘ If I ca n't make it , take Elinor . ’ |
| 5 | oh well , we ca n't very well be whether Julie said she liked boys to go out with her , go , and we provisionally booked , I think it was the last week in February , we got quite a bit on , I said er if I ca n't make it I 'll ring you , but then , oh that was it she rung me up , and she said Lynnie |
| 6 | He has told colleagues in the force in South Africa ( ‘ There are lots of cops who support me ’ ) that he is ready ‘ to lick your arse in Church Square on a Sunday , if I ca n't solve it in two days ’ — referring to the notorious unsolved murder of the antiapartheid activist , David Webster . |
| 7 | The fact that people will give money to save the otter , a nocturnal animal whose presence is detected even by full-time otter survey teams only by its tracks and droppings , is the best answer I know to that mean-spirited and illogical argument : ‘ What 's the use of saving it , if I ca n't see it ? ’ |
| 8 | He must know I worry if I ca n't see it . |
| 9 | Yeah , I know and he said she said my sister said if I ca n't afford it , she 'll pay but I 'll she said and I was so proud of Sam ! |
| 10 | ‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’ |
| 11 | Er , if I ca n't find it right now , which |
| 12 | and even if I ca n't take it up on the day , I could probably take it up the night before . |
| 13 | OUP , £25 ‘ I DO N'T care for life if I ca n't fill it with work , ’ Annie Besant often declared to her friends . |
| 14 | Sometimes I feel as if I can nae stand it |